MLB · 2B · Charlotte Knights (CWS)
Rikuu Nishida
B/T L/R · 5' 6" · 150 lb · born Osaka, Japan · age 25 · draft 2023 rd 11 · played 2B 73, RF 40, CF 8, LF 3 · MLB debut 2026-05-25
Last 14 days (through 2026-09-02): 9 G · .219 AVG · 0 HR · 5 RBI · .605 OPS
Reassigned to Minors (roster status, as of )
149 plate appearances scored this season His season card →
Scout’s note
Rikuu Nishida is a 25-year-old right fielder out of Osaka, an 11th-round pick in 2023 who reached the White Sox in late May. He has no home runs in 12 big-league games, and his recent AAA stretch shows the same — nine games, no power, but five walks alongside five RBI.
Note written · FVR scout (GLM-5.2)
What he’s paid
Pre-arbitrationA market fact, not an engine read: what a club decided about him, on the season before this one. Figures from Cot’s, as of .
- 2026 salary
- $0.11Mest
- Tax hit
- $0.11M
- Service time
- 0 yr 0 d
- Options left
- 3 / 3
The deal 1 year (2026)
On the sheet: 1 y (26)
Regime read from his service time, not from the sheet — it does not project him past this season. Super Two eligibility is the top 22% of a class and can move this line in a way service time alone cannot see.
Cash and the tax hit are two different rulebooks and are never subtracted from one another — see the payroll board for his club, Chicago White Sox.
A second set of books
The same contract, read by MLB Spreadsheets (Ethan Hullihen), as of . We keep two sources on this because one source cannot check itself.
- Tax AAV
- $0.78M
- Guaranteed
- $0.78M
- Term
- 1 yr
- His class
- Pre-Arb
What the sheet prices each season at
| Season | 2026 | 2027 | 2028 | 2029 | 2030 | 2031 | 2032 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Salary | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | Minimum | Arb 1 | Arb 2 | Arb 3 |
A base salary under his own reading, and never subtracted from the cash figure above: a signing bonus lands in one and not the other, so the two disagree on most men without either being wrong. And the sheet does not mark which future seasons are GUARANTEED — a club option and a projected arbitration award are both just a number here, so read past the end of the deal as his forecast rather than as money owed.
The tax AAV above is his number under the CBA’s own rulebook, not the average we work out from Cot’s total. On a contract with deferred money the two come apart on purpose — and neither is subtracted from the other.
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Umpire favor
+0.2 net runs over 3 graded games — an even shake from the zone this season.
The line
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